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[–] glue_snorter@lemmy.sdfeu.org 19 points 1 year ago

Great boast for privacy. Removes a lot of attack surface that law could exploit. And potentially reduces running costs, too.

Glad to hear you're building the kernel too.

[–] Deepus@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Anyone got any real hands on with this vpn provider? Its not one I've ever heard of, but sounds good from a quick look on their site.

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's one of the most lauded privacy-focused VPNs around.

[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well lets definitely berate them for not knowing, that's sure to be fucking helpful

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actively did my best to take any condescendence out of this comment. I don't have personal experience with Mullvad except for Mozilla VPN (which I believe is just re-skinned Mullvad, if I'm not mistaken), so I just told them what I knew about it. How is that berating them?

[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what are you stupid? Everyone knows this is the best

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

And I carefully worded my sentence not to convey that sentiment while still stating the fact.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

I second the others. It is the #1 privacy VPN. It is also fairly priced, imo. Be careful and consider your threat model. VPN is not fool proof.

[–] Aggy@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I use them. I've found the speeds to be quite acceptable, plenty fast enough to play video games and download movies.

[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

You haven't heard of it? It's arguably the best.

[–] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I had never heard of it either. I had PIA when I was on Windows, still haven't gotten it setup on Linux though.

[–] Goodvibes@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Been using it exclusively for about a year. Very satisfied with the performance. It is a very no-nonsense service. They provide a VPN, anonymous payment options, and a flat rate regardless how much you buy at a time or when you buy (which is personally a big plus for me). They don't bug you to renew, and they don't offer any sort of auto-renewal. The only downside I could see is that if you are looking for a VPN provider that offers a large suite of privacy-adjacent tools labeled as a VPN app, you would be disappointed.

[–] Cosmocrat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bring back port forwarding please.

[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I'm curious why people would downvote a request for port forwarding?

[–] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Meh…. Get more regions servers ….